Tom Clements slaying: Woman accused of providing gun to Evan Ebel

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday night its agents have arrested a 22-year-old Commerce City woman on charges she provided the gun that killed state prisons chief Tom Clements last week.

The gun was recovered when 28-year-old Evan Ebel was fatally shot by law enforcement officers after a high-speed chase and shootout in Texas on March 21.

Stevie Marie Vigil was arrested Wednesday night on charges she bought the gun from a licensed firearms dealer in Englewood in early March and gave it to Ebel, whose status as a felon would have blocked him from buying it legally.

"The licensed firearms dealer has been extremely cooperative with investigators, and had no knowledge of Vigil's alleged actions following her legal purchase of the gun," CBI stated Wednesday night in a news release.

Ebel has also been connected to the death of 27-year-old Domino's Pizza delivery man Nathan Leon, who was reported missing after going on a delivery on March 17, two days before Clements was shot to death in the doorway of his home.

A pizza delivery uniform and a pizza carrier were found in Ebel's Cadillac after he was killed.

Police have said that ballistic evidence links the 9mm Smith & Wesson recovered by Texas officials to Clements' death but have not said whether any evidence indicates the same gun was used in the Leon shooting.

Vigil is being held on $25,000 bail in the Arapahoe County Jail, charged with unlawful purchase of a firearm, a Class 4 felony, that carries a sentence of up to 16 years in prison.

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Vigil has no criminal history, according to CBI records. Other public records indicate she lives with her parents in Commerce City.

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